heteronormative
English
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[edit]heteronormative (comparative more heteronormative, superlative most heteronormative)
- Of or pertaining to the practices and institutions that privilege or value heterosexuality, heterosexual relationships, and traditional gender roles as fundamental and "natural" within society.
- Much of the language used when discussing wedding planning is heteronormative, which can alienate homosexual couples.
- 1997 Summer, John Champagne, ““Stop Reading Films!”: Film Studies, Close Analysis, and Gay Pornography”, in Cinema Journal, volume 36, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 82:
- This suggests both that film studies can be heteronormative even when it is analyzing homosexual representations and that close textual analysis is itself structured by heterosexual presumptions and assumptions.
- 1998 February 28, Ruth Holliday, “Philadelphia: AIDS, Representation, Organization”, in John Hassard, Ruth Holliday, editors, Organization-Representation: Work and Organizations in Popular Culture, SAGE, →ISBN, →OL, page 102:
- In the same way, homosexuality and bisexuality will always be seen as problematic in heteronormative organizations.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:heteronormative.
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[edit]- homonormativity (see there for more)
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- inflection of heteronormativ:
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